Edited collection of essays, interviews, personal vignettes, and more, devoted to the phenomenon of the film Brokeback Mountain.
In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, writers, journalists, scholars and ordinary viewers explore the film and Annie Proulx's original story as well as 'Brokeback Mountain's' ongoing cultural and political significance.
This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. Furthermore, it explores how power and resistance are most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma.…
"Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, The Declining Significance of Homophobia…
Homophobias: lust and loathing across time and space
A collection that analyzes homophobic violence from an anthropological, cross-cultural perspective.
Homophobias: lust and loathing across time and space
"What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? What are the ambivalences in homophobic discourses that …
Traces the history of religious, legal, and social persecution of homosexuals, exploring the references as found in the Bible, punishment of homosexuals in ancient Greece, and attitudes reflected in modern literature, media, and hate crimes.